Myspace — the iconic social network of the early 2000s — seemed to be experiencing a resurgence this summer when millions of visitors flocked to its new video page, potentially generating a wave of ad revenue for the site’s troubled parent company, Time Inc.

It started simply enough – with suggestions that her child should follow an unremarkable-sounding special diet. “They did these tests: a stool test and a urine test,” Layla (not her real name) tells BuzzFeed News.

The short, stooped man known as Kredens worked from dawn till dusk – laying bricks, plumbing, plastering; even sewing furs. His masters beat him often, and when they no longer needed his labour they sold him on to new slave masters – shifting him from worksite to worksite, city to city.

BuzzFeed, the somewhat new media giant, is multiplying. The company announced today that it will separate itself into two distinct departments—BuzzFeed News and a newly formed BuzzFeed Entertainment Group (BFEG)—in a move aimed at solidifying its dominance in digital video.

After years of writing for theater, Maurissa Tancharoen was overjoyed when she sold a film script to a studio in 2001. She had been paired with an executive who provided her with some constructive notes — first over the phone, then over dinner, where he began to inquire about her dating life.

As the general election ticked down to polling day last week, Thomas Clark was working 20 hours a day, stopping only for quick naps before getting back to his one-man mission: writing attacks on Theresa May and producing memes in support of Jeremy Corbyn’s policies for his blog, Another Angry Vo

Between the headline and the thumbnail, it was a piece of fake news destined to go viral — and it did. The completely false story has earned over 815,000 shares, reactions, and comments on Facebook since mid-February.

In the final three months of the US presidential campaign, the top-performing fake election news stories on Facebook generated more engagement than the top stories from major news outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, NBC News, and others, a BuzzFeed News analysis ha

I’m John Templon, an investigative data reporter for BuzzFeed News. I spent the past 15 months analyzing tennis betting data to see if I could figure out whether players were fixing matches. (You can read that full story here.) I don’t play tennis. I’m a numbers guy.

Go to Settings > Privacy > Location services. Here you'll find a whole load of apps that are using GPS to update your location. It's useful for something like Find my iPhone, but the chances are there are a whole load of other apps that don't need it and are draining your battery.

This is Part One of a BuzzFeed News investigation. Part Two: Kremlin-Linked Slush Funds Funneling Money To Syria's Chemical Weapons Financiers Part Three: How Deutsche Bank Enabled A Dirty Offshore Bank To Move Dark Money

Some of the world’s biggest brands were ripped off by a digital fraud scheme that used a network of websites connected to US advertising industry insiders to steal what experts say could be millions of dollars, a BuzzFeed News investigation has found.

In a San Francisco Lyft car, there's a chart taped to the back of the front passenger seat: "The Rating System Explained." It details — in exaggerated terms — what Lyft's one- to five-star rating scale really means to drivers.

In early July, a website made to look like a real news organization published what would prove to be one of the biggest fake news hits of the US election. It improbably quoted the pope as saying that the FBI’s inability to prosecute Hillary Clinton for her emails led him to endorse Trump.

As you’ve probably already heard, we launched the BuzzFeed News app this morning, a product that is the result of our investment in both news and mobile technology. You can download the app HERE. News is the heart and soul of any great media company.

Of the dozens of groups that most of WhatsApp's more than 200 million users in India are a part of, none is more ubiquitous than the family group. Family WhatsApp groups are great for seeing pictures of your cousin’s new dog or coordinating help during medical emergencies.

Some of the loudest voices opposing President Donald Trump’s proposal to arm “highly trained” teachers to protect students belong to the group that knows best what it’s like to confront someone with a gun: military combat veterans.

As Americans continue to debate what the future of their health care system should look like, some who can't afford treatment — or just don't want to deal with doctors — are turning to an unlikely source of medicine: antibiotics purchased online and at stores that are designed to treat farm an

On the Grand Scale of Misogyny in Hip-Hop, lyrics like “That pussy should be holding exclusive rights to me,” and a call for "turbo thots” to liven up a party (thot is shorthand for "that ho over there”) are not particularly egregious.

The first time Bonnie met her father, Paul Elam, he cried like a baby. It was a summer day in 2005, nearly 25 years after Elam relinquished his parental rights in court and refused to pay child support for Bonnie, whose name has been changed, and her younger brother.

When Donald Trump's longtime political adviser and attorney was asked by the Daily Beast Monday to comment on a potentially explosive story about his boss, he could have stonewalled or sweet-talked, bartered or begged, or attempted any of the other diversion tactics regularly employed by professi

Somehow, the Great Fidget Spinner Frenzy of 2017 managed to burn its way across the country without a major retailer, TV advertisement or brand getting involved. It wasn't the first time, and it won't be the last.

An ad network launched a new initiative to "continue the fight against fake news" at the same time it was working with 21 websites that have published fake news stories, according to a review conducted by BuzzFeed News.

COLOGNE, Germany – Apart from the presence of several police officers, there were few signs in Cologne central station on a cold January afternoon that just a few days earlier this area had been declared a “no-go area”.

As ad dollars that used to fund journalism pour into the coffers of Facebook and Google, the information business is experiencing a trend familiar to other American industries: The product they produce is now competing with cheaper versions coming from overseas.

AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico — Funeral home and crematorium directors are being permitted by the Puerto Rican government to burn the bodies of people who they say died as a result of Hurricane Maria — without those people being counted in the official death toll.

BuzzFeed News: So, eight years ago, today actually, you announced your campaign in Springfield. I read that speech last night and I was struck by how much it’s a generational call to your generation, I guess to some degree mine. You use the word “generation” 13 times in the speech.

Today, BuzzFeed News is sharing an enormous dataset — one that sheds light on four decades of the United States’ federal payroll. The dataset contains hundreds of millions of rows and stretches all the way back to 1973. It provides salary, title, and demographic details about millions of U.S.

American soccer has become an athletic and economic powerhouse, due substantially to the contributions of Chuck Blazer. Along the way, Blazer raked in more than $21 million from the sport, much of it paid to offshore shell companies.

Churches across the US are fighting back against the Trump administration’s mandate to ramp up deportations with new sanctuary practices of their own, using private homes in their congregations as shelter and potentially creating a modern-day underground railroad to ferry undocumented immigrants

In directing prosecutors to pursue the most serious charges possible in criminal cases, Attorney General Jeff Sessions will end up dictating some of the decisions of a group of public officials who aren’t under his command: federal judges.

Right-wing outlets, pro-Trump media personalities, and conspiracy theorists are falsely claiming that the attorney who met with Donald Trump Jr. during the 2016 campaign was a left-wing operative trying to torpedo a future Trump administration.

Here’s what’s happening: President Trump’s revised order banning travel from six Muslim-majority countries for three months and halting the refugee resettlement program for four months goes in to effect at 12:01 a.m. ET on Thursday morning.

Audience members wander through dozens of elaborately decorated rooms as dancers perform a blood-and-sex filled adaptation of Macbeth at the immersive theater production Sleep No More. The lighting ranges from dim to very dark; guests are intentionally separated from the people they arrived with.

ISTANBUL — A Turkish businessman at the heart of a scandal swirling around the Trump White House had a nearly year-long commercial arrangement with an Israeli energy firm, despite its continued denials of any such deal, according to photographs and documents seen by BuzzFeed News.

White supremacists have gathered for the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where they are chanting racist and homophobic slogans. Hundreds of counter-protesters are also there, including local interfaith leaders, activists, and self-described anti-fascist protesters.

Who are Todd and Clare Hammond, and why are they leveling false charges against Julian Assange? That’s the question following last week’s bizarre news that the people behind the tiny online dating site ToddandClare.

Just over a year ago, Jess Phoenix was in Ecuador, leading a 30-person film crew toward the spewing summit of a freshly erupting volcano. As the ground rumbled beneath their feet, the crew grew understandably nervous. But not Phoenix.

The town of Veles, Macedonia, achieved international fame last fall after a BuzzFeed News story reported on a large cluster of pro-Trump websites that often published fake news and that were being run by teenagers and young men.

Yesterday, Buzzfeed published a memo telling staffers that they could be fired for leaking internal company information to the press. Allow us to point out the implications of this. Buzzfeed has grown from a churning listicle machine into a full-fledged news organization.

Last month, a controversial study about the food choices of elementary school students was retracted for statistical errors and replaced with a new analysis. But the updated version is also seriously flawed, undermining the study’s premise, BuzzFeed News has learned.

There’s a popular forum on Reddit for Turkers, the roughly 500,000 people all around the world who are hired by researchers, marketing companies, and the like to do tiny tasks, like gauge the sentiment of a tweet or transcribe an audio snippet, for pennies (or fractions thereof) apiece

BUDAPEST – Several of Marton Gyongyosi’s views are on display in his parliamentary office. An orange and black Saint George ribbon, a Russian military decoration used by Russian nationalists as well as secessionists in eastern Ukraine, is tied to a lamp that sits on his desk.

Elaine Duke, the Department of Homeland Security's acting secretary, responded Friday to the backlash against earlier comments where she said she was satisfied with the US government response to the devastation in Puerto Rico.

Last week, Greater Manchester police (GMP) announced a major new initiative: officers across the force will now use a special code in reports of domestic abuse incidents where the victim is LGBT. This would enable officers to understand the scale of the problem and respond more effectively.

The personal information of tens of thousands of customers of Saks Fifth Avenue, Gilt, Lord & Taylor, and other retail brands have been publicly available in plain text online, BuzzFeed News has learned.

It also accused BSA leaders of making "disparaging and untrue remarks" about Girl Scout programming at "family meetings" outlining their proposed programs for girls. The spokesperson or the letter did not specify what BSA's proposed programs for girls were.